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Little Hoover Commission, Sacramento, CA. – 1998
Child care has become a central issue to most Californians and is increasingly important to policymakers. The Little Hoover Commission examined child care in California, focusing on the long-standing competition between the quantity of services available and the quality of services provided. Information was obtained from an advisory committee of…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Children, Day Care, Early Childhood Education
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1972
The result of the work of a special task force, the design for an early childhood education program for California is given which formulates goals, performance objectives, program content standards, and an evaluation system for an overall articulated program. Chapters are presented on: the rationale for change; parent-community involvement;…
Descriptors: Child Development, Community Cooperation, Early Childhood Education, Environmental Influences
Wilhelms, Fred T., Ed. – 1979
The results of a one-year project to determine the status of provisions for consumer education throughout the country are reported in this document. A section on the observations and recommendations of the advisory committee of the consumer's education project serves as the document's introduction. Part I, background and overview, analyzes the…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Consumer Education, Educational Policy, Federal State Relationship
National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, Washington, DC. – 1994
The briefing and forum on children and youth services was the second public event organized by the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science under the Omnibus Children and Youth Literacy Initiative, which was endorsed at the White House Conference on Library and Information Services in 1991. This report contains transcripts of the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Childrens Libraries, Definitions, Demography
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. – 1972
On January 13, 1972, the subcommittee resumed its hearings on land ownership, agribusiness, and agrigovernment in California. Witnesses testified on: (1) the impact of land use, ownership, and distribution on farmworkers, farmers, and consumers; (2) the national policy of land ownership and distribution; (3) California's water project and…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Agribusiness, Agricultural Laborers, Change Strategies
Fuhrman, Susan, Ed.; Rosenthal, Alan, Ed. – 1981
This monograph and its companion, "Legislative Education Leadership in the States," portray the contemporary role of state legislators and map the structure of education leadership in terms of both the characteristics of influential legislators and staff and the nature of influence structures in state legislatures. This volume reports…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Decision Making, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
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McRoy, Ruth G.; And Others – Child Welfare, 1997
Claims that although agencies specializing in adoption of minority children have been successful in achieving same-race adoptive placements for African American children, funding and support for some of these initiatives have been withheld. Describes successful placement practices used by a private agency in California and a public agency in…
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Adoption, Adoptive Parents, Black Family